Restoring thunderbird email8/31/2023 ![]() ![]() Fortunately I had it backed up so was able to restore once I determined the problem.Īs a long time professional programmer (30+years, Computer Scientist) I am going to voice a strong criticism about the design of Thunderbird, some of the help/answers seen here, and perhaps take the trouble to find out where and how to submit this as a bug report. I also just lost prefs.js and suddenly Thunderbird went flat, with no accounts and it acted like it was wanting to start from scratch. I selected the new profile to be started with Thunderbird automatically, and removed the profilemanager command from the startup.I am glad I found this thread. ![]() This process has resolved the issue on my end. The preferences should be the same as in the old profile, as we have moved the preference files to the new profile as well. You should now see all your mailboxes in the new profile. I'd suggest to install them anew, but you could try and move them from the old to the new profile. All extensions and other customizations are not moved. ![]() Please note that you need to enter the mailbox passwords again. Once done start Thunderbird using the new profile. Look into the root folder of the profile and copy the following files to the new profile: all abook*.mab files, all prefs files, all signons files. Locate the Mail (and if you like ImapMail) folder in your old profile and copy it to the new profile. Important data in this regards are all emails, contact information and preferences. We are now going to move important data from the old profile to the new one. First your original profile with all your emails, and then your secondary profile that you have just created. For the sake of simplicity, we assume you see two profiles. Note that you should see at least two profiles listed there. Windows users find the profile under C:\Users\Martin\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\ Locate your Thunderbird profile folder on your hard drive. This is a simple process, all you need to do is to click on create profile and enter a name if you like. A new profile is like a new user account for Thunderbird. This launches the profile manager before the email client is started. Look for the Target field and add -profilemanager at the end of the command. Right-click it and select Properties from the options. You can do that by locating the Thunderbird shortcut in the taskbar or start menu. First thing I did was to add -profilemanager to the end of the Thunderbird startup command to launch the profile manager during start up. ![]() I kept the option in mind and decided to play around with profiles first. I first thought about backing up all emails to Mailstore and starting anew, but this would have meant that I would have to juggle between two programs (the new Thunderbird and Mailstore) for a while. I did notice that my mail was still there which was reassuring to say the least. I tried a lot of "internal" fixes, like removing the msf files so that Thunderbird would regenerate them, or reinstalling the program to see if that would resolve the problem. When I restarted the email client, I was again able to click on one mailbox, but not on any other. But when I tried to click on another mailbox, or another folder of the same mailbox, nothing would happen. I was also able to click on one mailbox and read the mails there. ![]()
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